Writing Japan's war in New Guinea : the diary of Tamura Yoshikazu / Victoria Eaves-Young.

• 1. Setting the scene -- 2. An extraordinary diary of an ordinary soldier -- 3. Priming the country for war : imperial rescripts as fortifiers of the Kokutai -- 4. Out of landscape -- 5. The landscape of deprivation -- 6. Creating an idealized world -- 7. Re-creating an emotionally accommodating landscape -- 8. Death as man's true calling -- 9. Challenges to a resolve to die -- 10. Reconciling death.

• Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even meagre amenities and faced with the spectre of debilitating illness and starvation, this solitary soldier commenced a diary in the early part of 1943. Employed in the hard labour of building airstrips, he is ground down by tedium, disheartened by the now dysfunctional military hierarchy, consumed by grief at the meaningless deaths of comrades, and stripped of any chance of being involved in an aspect of war that he considers heroic and meaningful. Profoundly unsettled by all that appears to be at odds with the kokutai ideology, Tamura employs strategies through the vehicle of his diary to enable him to remain committed to the pathway of death on behalf of the Emperor 

Ämnesord

Kriget i Stilla havet 1941-1945  (sao)

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  (sao)

Soldater  (sao)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Campaigns -- New Guinea. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Participation, Japanese. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Personal narratives, Japanese. (LCSH)

Soldiers  -- Japan -- Diaries. (LCSH)

Military campaigns.  (fast)

Soldiers.  (fast)

Military participation  -- Japanese. (fast)

World War, 1939-1945  (LCSH)

Soldiers  (LCSH)

Japan.  (fast)

New Guinea.  (fast)

Japan  (sao)

Papua Nya Guinea  (sao)

1939-1945  (fast)

Genre

Personliga berättelser  (saogf)

Dagböcker  (saogf)

Diaries.  (fast)

Diaries.  (lcgft)

Personal narratives.  (lcgft)

Personal narratives  -- Japanese. (fast)

Personnamn

Tamura, Yoshikazu -- Diaries.

Konferensnamn

World War (1939-1945)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Australian

Klassifikation

D767.95 (LCC)

940.5426 (DDC)

K.54b (kssb/8 (machine generated))